Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We need a renewed conversation on what HE is actually for and how it should be delivered. Rampant student debt, mass redundancies and abandoning academic integrity to drink the Big Tech kool-aid is not it. This piece is a great starting point in that conversation. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/brit...tribunemag.co.ukBritish Academia is Dying. It’s Time for a National Industrial ResponseWorkers in higher education are fighting atomised struggles to save their jobs. A rank-and-file strategy is needed to unite them. 130
Reposted by Kate HardyDr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 16/08/2026If you haven't already, can you please take a minute to sign this demand for a public inquiry into the role of the media in Prof. Arday's death? Thanks so much. Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project share.google/yglZz4Gw42RJ...share.googleJason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law ProjectCommission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death. 21791453
Reposted by Kate HardyTom Gillespie @t-a-gillespie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Many thanks to @digitcentre.bsky.social for supporting this project with @katerhardy.bsky.social, Gianluca Iazzolino and Yawei Zhao 011
Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Join our editorial team as an Associate Editor at New Technology, Work and Employment. If you have any questions, please do get in touch and I would be pleased to talk about the positions. 100
Reposted by Kate HardyThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/06/2026Israel deliberately targeting Gaza children to commit genocide, UN inquiry findstheguardian.comIsrael deliberately targeting Gaza children to commit genocide, UN inquiry findsReport says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, an independent UN inquiry has found. The report by the UN independent international commission of inquiry examined violations against Palestinian children since the start of the war in Gaza, and said about 30% of those killed by Israeli forces have been children. Continue reading... 43771617
Reposted by Kate HardyRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 10/05/2026If Streeting is the answer, Labour hasn't understood the question. 1161874393
Reposted by Kate HardyOwen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Opposition to genocide is being conflated with very real threats to Jewish people. It's not just a false smear: It stops people believing that antisemitism is real - when it is a very real menace that needs to be fought. 1731966431
Reposted by Kate HardyUniversity of Hertfordshire UCU @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social · 06/05/2026On Friday afternoon before the Bank Holiday, colleagues in the Humanities department were called to a meeting on Tuesday. They were informed that the University Portfolio Review had decided that English Language, English Literature, Philosophy, History & Creative Writing UG degrees would close 30297207
Reposted by Kate HardyZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Thank you Rabbi for your kind words! 🙏🏽 361368427
Reposted by Kate HardyBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026You won't have seen it on the News but right now Israel is destroying 600,000 homes in Lebanon, to move 2m out of 22% of Lebanon, so they can steal it all for themselves. A war crime not seen since Hitler, or Gaza. 14326521398
Reposted by Kate HardyZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/04/2026More u-turns, prevarication and caving into developers from Labour. The Greens are clear. No more leaseholds. Bring in rent controls. Vote Green on 7th May. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukWe can't abolish leasehold outright, minister saysMatthew Pennycook rejects criticism the government is dragging its feet on leasehold reform. 38749210
Reposted by Kate HardyBen Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 18/03/2026If you missed it, I’m part of a small collective trying to bring a radical bookshop shop to Newcastle. We haven’t had a good proper radical book shop since the 1980s. We think that should change! We launched our crowdfunder today, support if you can: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb... Pls share 13726
Reposted by Kate HardyBen Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 17/04/2026As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb... 13943
Reposted by Kate HardyCheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Seven countries now use renewable energy for 100% of their electricity Recent data has shown that in 2022, countries including Albania, Paraguay, Ethiopia & Nepal produced more than 99.7% of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, /1 thread www.renewableinstitute.org/seven-countr...renewableinstitute.orgSeven countries now use renewable energy for 100% of their electricity - The Renewable Energy InstituteCountries including Albania, Paraguay, Ethiopia & Nepal produced more than 99.7% of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, solar and wind power marking what scientists say is an “irrev... 361858640
Reposted by Kate HardyCERIC @ceric-lubs.bsky.social · 10/04/2026The International Labour Process Conference is almost here. We're starting with online on Tues 14th & Thurs 16th April. This is free to attend. It promises to be fascinating & insightful two days. You can check out the programme on the ILPC website and register there www.ilpc.org.uk/ILPC-2026/Co...ilpc.org.uk Conference Registration ILPC 2026 001
Reposted by Kate HardyThe Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I don’t think people around the world realize how bad the attack on Lebanon was today. It’s BAD. Like 9/11 BAD. Hospitals are overflowing and do not have enough blood. We still don’t know what the death toll is. This is TERRORISM. Pure and Simple. April 8. Never forget. 34994183914
Reposted by Kate HardyBlack Guy Does Sociology @blackmanbeyond.bsky.social · 07/04/2026BTW the people who spent the last few years advocating for Palestine were clearly 100% right that normalizing war crimes and genocide there would just increase the likelihood of inhumane actions elsewhere. Just saying. 6356261478
Reposted by Kate HardyEarly Education and Childcare Coalition @coalitionedcare.bsky.social · 01/04/2026What would it take to build a stronger early years workforce in England? Our Model for Change identifies the policies that shape workforce experience and sustainability over time. Read more: www.earlyeducationchildcare.org/model-for-ch... @katerhardy.bsky.social @ceric-lubs.bsky.social 021
Reposted by Kate HardyCERIC @ceric-lubs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Take a look at @katerhardy.bsky.social and colleagues findings on pay and conditions in early years work.👇 011
Reposted by Kate HardyJeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran. Meanwhile, the UK is letting US bombers land, refuel and re-arm. Complicity is always a choice — and our government has chosen to drag Britain into an illegal war. 491171340
Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Our new research with @coalitionedcare.bsky.social found that low pay & poor conditions in early years undermine parents' confidence in settings. Parents know that educators working conditions are their children's learning conditions. www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/news... @ceric-lubs.bsky.socialnurseryworld.co.ukEarly years sector's low pay impacts parents' views of quality of settings - Nursery WorldNew research finds that poor pay in early years settings is impacting parents’ view of quality and calls on the Government to introduce a 10-year workforce strategy. 010
Reposted by Kate HardyLaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Zionists have coveted the land south of the Litani, since the late 19th century. Israel's talks about "buffer zones" are, AS ALWAYS, about territorial maximalism 02410
Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026I am pleased to today launch the Model for Change for building the early education workforce in England. Together with other @ceric-lubs.bsky.social researchers, we have worked with the @coalitionedcare.bsky.social to interrogate what needs to change to increase the status of early years work. 141
Reposted by Kate HardyHelen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy. This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis. 44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks. 872990875
Reposted by Kate HardyElisa Pannini @elisapannini.bsky.social · 20/02/2026The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself share.google/CjcdXejrMQyJ...share.googleThe greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itselfAutomating knowledge production and teaching weakens the ecosystem of students and scholars that sustains universities, raising existential questions about their mission. 041
Reposted by Kate HardyZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/02/2026This is huge - and proves exactly what we're saying. We cannot have a moment of complacency - only the Green Party can stop Reform. Vote Hannah Spencer and the Green Party on Thursday in Gorton and Denton. 💚 37665236
Reposted by Kate HardyFelicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Urgent writing on Birzeit U from @hamayel.bsky.social “Terror…disciplines through anticipation, exhaustion, and saturation. Subjects end up managing risk instead of imagining alternatives. Education as a space of experimentation becomes intolerable…” @mondoweiss.net mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-...mondoweiss.netThe hollowing out of Palestine’s most important universityBirzeit University is no longer what it once was. The transformation has been gradual and, therefore, easily rationalized, but the result has been the hollowing out of a university that once led the P... 021
Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026“The devastation of Gaza by this same elite is not a moral anomaly. It belongs to the same architecture. The same assumption that some lives are fully human, while others are expendable. Children abused on a private island. Children beneath rubble in Gaza” www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/epst...middleeasteye.netFrom Epstein to Gaza: The depravity of the western elite is now fully exposedGaza was not a deviation from the morality of the financial and political class that oversaw its annihilation. It was their culmination 000
Reposted by Kate HardyZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/01/2026The Green Party will stop Reform in Gorton and Denton. We'll be announcing Manchester's first Green MP in the morning. Lots and lots of work to do! youtu.be/02HnpczQQnQ?...youtu.be‘How can they be anti-establishment if they're ALL TORIES?!’ | Zack Polanski pulls apart Reform UKYouTube video by Manchester Evening News 21736166
Reposted by Kate HardyUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 26/01/2026400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close. This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it. 📍 Southend rally | 5 February 05758
Reposted by Kate HardyDrop Site @dropsitenews.com · 11/01/2026⭕️ The last Bedouin community in the southern Jordan Valley is being emptied, as more than 120 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from the hamlet of Ras Ein al-Auja, according to B’Tselem. Residents were driven out after months of escalating settler violence... Additional details 👇 02729
Reposted by Kate HardyJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11/01/2026This is what I meant when I wrote that "we can overthrow them with a union of care." 172029591
Reposted by Kate HardyMichael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war 199222284678
Reposted by Kate HardyPolicy Leeds @policyleeds.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Join the launch of L-earning: rethinking young women's working lives project's final report to hear how women's early experiences of work shape future inequalities. 12 December, 4pm-7pm, University House, London. www.eventbrite.com/e/report-lau... @katerhardy.bsky.social @sspatleeds.bsky.socialeventbrite.comReport launch event: Rethinking Young Women's Working LivesJoin researchers from the ‘Rethinking Young Women's Working Lives’ project to learn about young women's earliest experiences of work 022
Reposted by Kate HardyGabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 14/06/2025Let’s also not forget that foreign born nannies have been very vocal about facing no wages, sexual assault, and violence and if they speak out, their rich white employers will threaten to report them to ICE 11753265
Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Young women students are 50% more likely to work, face sexual harassment & unclear about their rights. Join us *today at 12pm* to hear more about our findings on women student workers from our ESRC project L-Earning: rethinking young women's working lives. www.eventbrite.com/e/briefing-l...eventbrite.comBriefing launch ‘Earning While Learning: student employment’Learn about our new in-depth research on students in paid employment. We will share findings and advice for educators, employers and unions. 021
Reposted by Kate HardyCERIC @ceric-lubs.bsky.social · 23/05/2025New article published on the CERIC website about the work our researchers @katerhardy.bsky.social and Mia Zhong have been doing with @ywworking.bsky.social business.leeds.ac.uk/research-cer...business.leeds.ac.ukNew report on student workers and ‘earning while learning’ releasedNot only are student workers important to the economy, but working while in education has positive and negative effects on students, says a new report released today. 032
Reposted by Kate HardyThe Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Women have long faced sidelining in Marxist spaces, yet as this panel argues, their insights have radically reshaped Marxist thought—whether by exposing unpaid labor or connecting dispossession and oppression. Feat. Simin Fadaee, Helen Yaffe, @katerhardy.bsky.social et al. buff.ly/b7jqkTAbuff.lyGlobal Marxism by Simin Fadaee, featuring Helen Yaffe, Ana Cecilia Dinerstein and Kate HardyIn this panel discussion event, an all-female panel discussed Marx’s enduring influence, as well as whether writing about Marxism is a male-dominated space a... 113
Reposted by Kate HardyQM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025👀 Maybe all those @ucu.org.uk members who were told they couldn't take their employer to Employment Tribunal for [insert dubious excuse here] reasons over the punitive Action Short Of Strike deductions should feed into this? #EmploymentTribunal #EmploymentLaw #WorkersRights 085
Reposted by Kate HardyFaculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · 19/03/2025It is with great sadness that we report the news that Professor Vincent Gillespie died at home on 13 March. Read more about Professor Gillespie's life as an inspiring scholar, a warm and caring tutor, and a much-loved colleague.english.web.ox.ac.ukProfessor Vincent Gillespie, FBA (11 February 1954–13 March 2025) 044
Reposted by Kate HardyLucy Burke @lucyburkemcr.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Just the sheer, obscene spectacle of a Government minister on £160K+ plus expenses and all the freebies, coming for the sub £10K per year that my son gets in PIP - being autistic & learning disabled in a deeply unequal, discriminatory & hostile society is not a “lifestyle choice” 17434
Reposted by Kate Hardymethods@manchester @methodsmcr.bsky.social · 18/03/2025@lilithbrouwers.bsky.social, @katerhardy.bsky.social & Prof. Kim Allen will present their experiences from the @ywworking.bsky.social project 023
Reposted by Kate HardyWill Rossiter @satyrane.bsky.social · 14/03/20251/3: Last August, upon my becoming a Prof., Vincent Gillespie emailed me unexpectedly to congratulate me & to note his belief that supporting rising talent meant more to him than any of his publications. He also said that it was now my turn to foster that support. When I was a PGR, after giving a … 251
Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025My Father in Law, Vincent Gillespie, passed away last night. Vincent was born in Liverpool. His parents -who left school at 14- saw education as the ticket out of disadvantage. Vincent went on to become Emeritus J R R Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at @ox.ac.uk 240
Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025New article from Hanne Stegeman & I: "Locating online labour: the salience of the national scale in remote digital work" (Environment & Planning A) We theorise nation-scale cultural & infrastructural norms & practices as still constitutive of online-only work. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 022
Reposted by Kate Hardymethods@manchester @methodsmcr.bsky.social · 05/03/2025@lilithbrouwers.bsky.social, @katerhardy.bsky.social, & Prof. Kim Allen will present their experiences from the @ywworking.bsky.social project 143
Reposted by Kate HardyNew Technology Work & Employment @ntwejournal.bsky.social · 03/03/2025The "Disrupting Technology" conference calls for abstracts of careful, empirically grounded, theorisations of technology & its impact on work and employment relations. Asking what is genuinely novel about digital innovations & should be excellent & of interest to readers & authors of NTWE. 053